Java Edition 13w43a

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13w43a is the fourteenth and final snapshot for Java Edition 1.7.2, released on October 21, 2013^[1], which adds acacia and dark oak wood, bark, leaves, and saplings.

Wood

• Acacia wood.
  • Has a texture resembling jungle wood, but with less green.
  • Cannot be crafted into planks yet.
  • Can only be placed through external tools or commands.
• Dark oak wood.
  • Shares its texture with spruce wood.
  • Cannot be crafted into planks yet.
  • Can only be placed through external tools or commands.

Bark

• Acacia bark.
  • Has a texture resembling jungle bark, but with less green.
• Dark oak bark.
  • Shares its texture with spruce bark.

Leaves

• Acacia leaves.
  • Visually identical to oak leaves.
• Dark oak leaves.
  • Visually identical to oak leaves.

Saplings

• Acacia sapling.
  • Found in savanna biome.
• Dark oak sapling.
  • Found in roofed forest biome.
  • Must have four saplings placed in a 2×2 square to be grown, like big jungle trees.

/setworldspawn or /setworldspawn <x> <y> <z>

• Sets a new point as the spawn for all players (even if they have never joined the server or are offline, does not override beds).

Cauldrons

• Now put out burning entities (if there is already water in the cauldron). This depletes some of the water.

Jukeboxes

• Music that is played in jukeboxes now loops.

Maps

• When placed inside an item frame, the map now displays the item frame again, but still on a full block scale.

Pufferfish

• Changed texture.

Spawn eggs

• Now work on lava.

Boats

• Have been reverted to the previous WASD controls.
  • Note that the and keys can be used only while the key is pressed.
• No longer inflict fall damage when running aground.
• Boats being broken by lily pads has now been slightly improved.

Minecraft Realms

• Improved Minecraft realms support.

24 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.7.2

• MC-3871 – Cauldron water does not put out fire/damage blaze.
• MC-11027 – Axes accelerate the speed at which Slabs are broken.
• MC-12769 – when typing /help with a number higher than 4, it produces the wrong message.
• MC-15688 – Axe breaks all slabs in adventure mode. No drops for stone.
• MC-26151 – Minecraft has advice on an error report that should be deleted.
• MC-29424 – Players appear offset for other clients after going through nether portals.
• MC-31031 – Spawn eggs can be used on top of water, but not lava.
• MC-32250 – Typo on "Unable to Load Worlds" screen.

From the 1.7.2 development versions

• MC-14521 – Boats cannot be steered by using the "left" and "right" keys.
• MC-29483 – 2x2 spruce use oak leaves.
• MC-29510 – New trees that spawn in Savanna drop wrong sapling and are unable to be reproduced.
• MC-35722 – Master sound level resets on reboot and RP change.
• MC-35735 – Splash potions making throw sound but not breaking sound.
• MC-35805 – OS X: Pressing Del / Backspace on signs shows "DEL" character instead of deleting characters.
• MC-35848 – Maps are rendered too bright.

From the previous development version

• MC-35728 – Numbers render behind enchanted stacked enchanted items.
• MC-35879 – German Umlauts and ß are not correctly centered at sign.
• MC-35883 – Partially transparent map bug.
• MC-35910 – Typing ƒ, ∞ œ, π, Ω, ≈, √, ≤, ≥ and many more symbols on a sign or in the chat crashes the game.
• MC-35918 – "Format Error" in the Book and Quill.
• MC-36096 – Cake FallingSand Entity not landing correctly regenerates chunk.
• MC-36133 – "Force Unicode Font" is displayed in currently active language, whereas "Done" is displayed in highlighted language.
• MC-36141 – "Format error" in language selection menu.
• MC-36327 – RCON Messages: TranslatableComponent.

• 13w43a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.